Jared designs a study in which participants have to decide as quickly as possible whether strings of letters are real words or not. What is this task called?

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The task described is a lexical decision task, which requires participants to quickly decide whether a given string of letters is a word or not. The other options (word naming task, go no-go task, and verbal efficiency task) all involve different types of linguistic processing and do not fit the description given in the question.

Jared Designs a Study in Which Participants Have to Decide